"Circled by waters that never freeze, Beaten by billow and swept by breeze, Lieth the island of Manisees, "Set at the mouth of the Sound to hold The coast lights up on its turret old, Yellow with moss and sea-fog mould. "Dreary the land when gust and sleet At its doors and windows howl and beat, And Winter laughs at its fires of peat! "But in summer-time, when pool and pond, Held in the laps of valleys fond, Are blue as the glimpses of sea beyond; "When the hills are sweet with brier-rose, And, hid in the warm, soft dells, unclose Flowers the mainland rarely knows; "When boats to their morning fishing go, And, held to the wind and slanting low, Whitening and darkening, the small sails show,-- "Then is that lonely island fair; And the pale health-seeker findeth there The wine of life in its pleasant air. "No greener valleys the sun invite, On smoother beaches no sea-birds light, No blue waves shatter to foam more white!" ASCENDING THE HUDSON RIVER. X. ASCENDING THE HUDSON RIVER. Hudson River Scenery -- Fort Washington -- Fort Lee -- The Palisades -- Piermont -- Greenwood Lake -- Tuxedo Lake -- Font Hill -- Yonkers -- Philipse Manor -- Mary Philipse -- Hastings -- Dobbs's Ferry -- Tappan Zee -- The Flying Dutchman -- Tarrytown -- André and Arnold -- Tappan -- Irvington -- Sunnyside -- Washington Irving -- The Sleepy Hollow -- Ichabod Crane -- Point-no-Point -- Rockland Lake -- Sing-Sing -- Croton Point -- Haverstraw Bay -- Stony Point -- Treason Hill -- Verplanck's Point -- The Highlands -- The Donderberg and its Goblin -- Peekskill -- Anthony's Nose -- Iona Island -- West Point -- Forts Clinton and Montgomery -- Sugar Loaf Mountain -- Buttermilk Falls -- Constitution Island -- Susan Warner -- General Kosciusko -- Beverly House -- Arnold's Treason -- Old Cro' Nest -- Flirtation Walk -- The Storm King -- Mount Taurus -- Joseph Rodman Drake -- The Culprit Fay -- Cornwall -- Fishkill -- Newburg Bay -- Newburg and Washington's Headquarters -- Ural Knapp -- The Tower of Victory -- Enoch Crosby, the Spy -- The Devil's Dance Chamber -- The Long Reach -- Poughkeepsie -- Lakes Mohonk and Minnewaska -- Vassar College -- Crom Elbow -- Rondout -- Kingston -- Esopus -- Rhinebeck and Rhinecliff -- Ellerslie -- Rokeby -- Wilderscliff -- Montgomery Place -- Plattekill Clove -- Saugerties -- Livingston Manor -- Clermont -- Chancellor Livingston -- Fulton's First Steamboat -- Catskill Mountains -- Natty Bumppo -- Rip Van Winkle -- Slide Mountain -- Kaaterskill Clove -- Kaaterskill Falls -- Haines's Falls -- The Big Indian -- City of Hudson -- The Dutch -- New Lebanon -- The Shakers -- Mother Ann Lee -- Kinderhook -- Stuyvesant Landing -- Martin Van Buren